Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 17:13:22 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: john goerzen <jgoerzen@cs.twsu.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jgoerzen@cs.twsu.edu Subject: Re: Plea for help! And panic & bug reports! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960625171226.3188A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960625080946.22401A-100000@mccoy>
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On Tue, 25 Jun 1996, john goerzen wrote: > (NOTE...This is not my normal account. As such, it's not subscribed to > the list. Please CC your reponse to me here -- jgoerzen@cs.twsu.edu! > THANKS!) > > I am not currently able to access my mail on my normal computer, so > please CC your response here. > > I have recently upgraded from FreeBSD 9605?? to 960612 SNAP. The biggest > problem is this: > > I cannot login! As root, as my normal user account, etc. It just says > "Invalid login." After rebooting the first time under the new OS, I did > not have to enter a password for root. I did copy passwd and > master.passwd from the backup of the etc directory, ran pwd_mkdb or > whatever that program is called, etc. No go! I was using DES for > passwords, BTW. And yes, I did install the encryption stuff from the > sysinstall program. How about booting to single user and trying to fix the password problem there? Sander > > Now then...The reason I upgraded was a kernel panic when I accidentally > bumped the eject button on my Sony CDU33A CD-ROM drive. I relized my > mistake as soon as I did it, and wanting to prevent and problems, I > quickly unmounted it. Then I got a kernel panic. There were no programs > attempting to access the CD-ROM at the time. > > I came across a number of bugs in the installation program. > 1) In the upgrade menu, it fails to load the partition program. The label > program then gets into a loop of complaining that no partitions were > selected. Had to reboot, go to custom, select partitions, then go to > upgrade. > 2) Selecting COM2 for the PPP caused the PPP to fail on any com port. Had > to reboot, delete lock files, select COM1, then in PPP, type > "set device /dev/cuaa1" to make it work on COM2. > 3) ftp.freebsd.org was busy. Install program complained, retried once, then > said the installation failed and forced a reboot. Very annoying! Had > to then re-mount drives, select packages, etc. several times. It also > failed to delete the lock files before rebooting. > 4) Modem dropped connection -- sometimes dirty lines around here. Program > should have timed out on the FTP, and asked to re-enable connection. > Instead, it locked until a reboot. > 5) Prorgam garbled the string holding the location of the custom etc backup > directory. I had entered my own value -- after it had backed it up so > many times, I didn't want to overwrite anything important. It was garbage > on the screen when it reported that it couldn't reconstruct it. I then > did a cp -Rp and edited sysconfig and copied ppp.conf back to do basic > reconstruction. > 6) Failed to put a kernel in / ! I had to boot kernel.GENERIC to make it > "work". > 7) Failed to preserve password files. Caused lots of problems I have not yet > solved! > > Now I've worked around all the sysinstall problems except the password > file problem. I need help on that one desperately! Please, if at all > possible, send me an e-mail here -- this account is not subscribed to the > list and I can't log in to use my regular one! -- I will be very > appreciative! > > PS...I realize this is prerelease code. I am not complaining about > bugs. I am simply reporting them and asking for assistance in working > around one of them. Thanks. > >
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